Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-18 | Page 33 | British Stage Folk Strive to Keep Germans Out

BRITISH STAGE FOLK STRIVE TO KEEP GERMANS OUT (By International News Service.) LONDON. April 17. Tho supreme Council may extend tho right hand of fellowship and the loan of a "flivor" to tho late enemy, but n.ot $q the Variety Artists' Federation. Efforts have been ' made to book German music hall artists for "re-! "re-! turns" in this country. The interna I tlonale Artictep-Logo of Berlin is so anxious to set German artists onto 1 British stages that It has proposed- - that if fifteen German performers are I admitted to England, eighty-five Eng- H jlish artists may book i Germany. N Tho variety arti3ts point to a 1916 J H ; resolution forbidding booking Ger- I mans for three years after peace is I declared, and to another passed in I 1919 directed against employment of I Germans in any capacity at any time. 2 ! The Germans are attempting to , 1 ("undersell" the British, Danish and ! Scandinavian markets by offering en- , I gagements at prices far under thoso J H , prevailing in the various countries. i 00 ' I